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brown median line extending to base of skull. Narrow pale cerulean blue line 

 on labials, extending beyond opening of the mouth. A small cemlean blue spot, 

 formed by four scales, above the ear (this is not always present). Another 

 cerulean blue line on shoulder where the ochraceous area meets the body-colour. 

 Body above slate-blue sprinkled with ochraceous scales. Tail velvety black 

 for three fourths of its length, turning to gray until the last quarter inch, which 

 is white. Feet pale snake-gray. 



Females, variegated, gray of a rather Ught shade marked with brown 

 blotches of varying intensity, the white vertical shoulder band distinct but not 

 always edged with darker; belly whitish. The colours of the male become 

 very brilliant when mating. 



The status of this lizard in Cuba is far from clear. Gundlach found it 

 only in houses in Havana and Santiago de Cuba and our extensive collecting 

 has never revealed it as a denizen of the country or wilder districts. We have 

 found it by no means abundantly in both Havana and Santiago de Cuba, where 

 Wirt Robinson also took it in 1903. It is abundant at Guantanamo but only 

 in houses and never in the country. It is certainly suggestive that these three 

 localities are all maritime ports of entry of great commercial importance. The 

 M. C. Z. has a few specimens from Kingston, Jamaica, and it was suggested 

 (Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., 1910, 52, p. 289) that the Uzard probably reached 

 that port from Santiago. Whether or not Gonatodes notatus (Reinhardt and 

 Liitken) from Haiti is this species or distinct we cannot say, as no examples 

 are available for examination. The original description suggests a vahd form, 

 but Boulenger has included notatus, with a query, in the sjmonymy of albo- 

 gularis (Cat. Uzards Brit, mus., 1885, 1, p. 59); a surmise very likely to be 

 justified. Whether this gecko has been accidentally established in some one of 

 the locaUties mentioned and then spread to the others ; whether it has become 

 modified into a valid race after reaching the Antilles; whether or not it occurs 

 upon the mainland or whether perhaps the apparently different G. fuscus of 

 the continent is the ancestral form, are all suggestive topics for speculation. 

 At any rate it is very imlikely that the Gonatodes should be considered anything 

 but a recent accidental immigrant to Cuba and it should probably not there- 

 fore be considered, as it has been in the past, an integral part of the fauna of 

 the Island. 



Since this was written Dr. Stejneger has answered some of our queries. 

 First he has compared Haitian and Cuban specimens and found them distinct, 

 so that the name G. notatus cannot be discarded. Then also he has shown 



